The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1887-09-22

'NNfffNs ANse'f Hou hoi thNf' seAAt !
was her only near relative. foving ma
, OF Bohemian tastes, sort Of Jack OF a
trades. aud good at none. But pow b
seemed 10 have found new location wher
be would he likely 10 remain some lengi
Of time.
II am 10 Dakota. he wrote ''aud rs
taken up the nices, claim you ever saw
100 acres have bnill ne aii.;lo hons
snd ! keep old bachelors hall | q
where please in the day am oay fv
miles from the railroad and people ar
coming ia and villages are going mp fast
bave plenty TO do aud see -odd jobs o
carpenter work 10 keep me in living ex
ponses. aud then go back to my shant,
aud stay nights. You know | was sol
dier two years in the war. Well, iha
counts just no much time on my land, ant
When once own II can cell II or keep i
for a homestead, MS ! choose. Lots o
women are taking up claims Now, I've
been thinking OF you. Carrie. There is 1
splendid quarter section little way from
nine. II will be picked up soon, and j
you want TO make money. and have ths
grit to stand roughing II, you'd better be
the girl to pick 1t up. You must have
saved up something, teaching so steadily
as you have for five years 1t would cost
you but little TO come out here on land
bolders ticket. but little more 10 put up
a small cabin, and bnt little more 10 keep
you for six months and then you just
about owu your land at least You've only
got To make periodical visits to 1t after
that And you eau fnd enough to do in
the meantime; aud you can wear your old
clothes aud dresses. as well as the best of
them. Aud in few years you will be a
rich woman. Carrie, for this Land will sell
at good price, it is SO admirably located
and fertile
Carrie had no sooner finished the letter
than her decision was formed to 60. She
hated Smithtown and every body in it, and
the further she could get away, the better.
She wrote her uncle that she would arrive
within the next three weeks, and she was
with him in less than two.
II have the lumber all ready for your
little house, be said as he drove her from
the station to his bachelors hall,
Somehow she was lighter hearted and
happier since she knew she was iu Dakota
than she had been for months. She knew
why y-she did not cheat herself-it was
because she was 10 the same country with
Alex Hall 1t gave her sense Of com
panionship this very knowledge.
IN the morning | will take you out and
show you your claim" continued her
uncle. "Aud I've chosen the site for your
cabin. It'll be about q mile from mine
just nice walk for you when your are
lonesome.
The next morning was bright aud sun
ny, but Of course windy.
"What windl Does it blow often like
this?" asked Carrie, us they rolled along
over the cold ranch.
"Wiudl Why, this Is calm day." said
Uncle Tom, Just wait until you have
seen Dakota blizzard before you talk
about wind"
BY and by they came to Carries quarter
section, as Uncle Tom called it. Carrie
could not see where it began or where it
left of, she told Uncle Tom. 1t was like
All the rest of the country just land and
nothing more; prairie melting into prairie
rs far as the eve could reach.
"Well. but 1 know where the invisible
ines lie, responded Uncle Tom. "Now
over yonder on the knoll your cabin will
Dc built after We have attended to legal
ormalities, aud that is the extreme south
,ru limit OF your claim. A little south OF
here is slight,rayine, aud then another
KNOLL. The rayine is the dividing line
between the two quarter sections"
"Wbo owus the other one?" asked Car
lie, anxious to know who might be her
leighbor.
Il don't believe it is taken, though
ieard something about it the other day
some fellow was looking it up, believe,
There are doz us OF them around almost
laily. fhat was the reason | was 10 such
hurry for you to come.
A few days later after tie legal formal.
les bad been attended TO Uncle Tom drove
)arrie out again to look at the cabin that
vas in process Of erection on the opposite
knoll.
"Wby, that claim has been taken. too!
wonder who is my neighbour" querried
,arrie.
Il can fnd out at the land Office" I'm
lie Tom said.
He did so aud then gave Carrie the de-
ired Information the next day.
ats some fellow named Hall "A. Hall,
e said. Hes j1st sold out his interest
1 claim fifty miles north Of here, and
ow be takes up this, which be intends TO
eep as homestead. They often sell out
nice figure after staying on tteir claim
few months Some fellows pay good
nm for their chance and they go else
here.
"A. HALL"
Carrie felta sudden lespiog OF her heart,
I'D q curious excitement. Blu. II was not
all likely IT was Alex. 1t would be too
onderful to be true.
Yet ii was Ale1l She saw him at the
ostoffce the next day, and passed him
lihout so much as glance. Aler stood
, il be bad seen an appariiion. and took
,ep forward, aud then stood still, chilled